PMD Copy Paste Detection VSCode Extension

A tool to highlight lines of duplicated code flagged by PMD CPD

Features

• Show PMD-CPD duplication information.

• Hover text has links to other files with the duplicate code.

• Highlights colours based on minor, major, and critical based on number of tokens.

• Show / Hide status bar item

  

Requirements

• PMD CLI 7.0.0 or higher installed and in path

Commands / Actions

• Show Duplicate Code: Shows duplicate code highlighted in editor.
• Hide Duplicate Code: Hides duplicate code highlighting.
• Refresh Duplicates: Refresh duplicates from the report xml file.
• Scan Source for Duplicates: Run PMD CPD command and update highlighting.

Extension Settings

• minimumDuplicateTokens: The minimum number of token to consider a duplicate. See PMD CPD CLI options --minimum-tokens.
• minorIssueTokenThreshold: The token threshold to flag minor issues. Anything below this will be highlighted as minor.
• majorIssueTokenThreshold: The token threshold to flag major issues. Anything below this but above minor will be highlighted as major. Anything over this is critical.
• onStartBehavior: Specifies on load of extension to show or hide highlighting duplicate code.
• language: Specifies PMD CPD language. See https://pmd.github.io/pmd/pmd_userdocs_cpd.html#supported-languages
• sourceDirectory: Specifies the source folder to scan.

Known Issues

• Likely a few